selected poems
text for a drawing of the Nativity
within the
peaceful
thought
of creation’s great grace
is the chaos of a
sound
waiting for spring flowers
the sky is a cool grey
and the trees struggle
with buds
while we come and go
and hope the white
beach will be hot
soon.
a quest
come to the mountain
cries the bear
So find the wild
flower there
With the bee inside
Where would you
hide?
Walk for World Survival ‘89
In Saskatchewan
The uranium lies still
S.M.D.C. digs
Radiation is unleashed
Earth, Air, Water, die
Utilities buy
Yellow Cake uranium
Use in reactors
Sell plutonium for war
Everywhere people die
keep uranium in the ground
from the north
south east west
the spirit moves
for the earth
air sun sea
the people walk
in the snow
heat rain glare
the miners work
from the tanks
planes ships subs
the missiles fly
for the young
old wild tame
Creator weeps
in the north
south east west
we will protest
i am
our ship goes into the future
Homer's crew is gone
and there is no hero
and every day
i am held by the sunrise
and the present is my salvation
i do exist
only now
i have memory
culture has books
they do not prove time
they only are as bread crumbs left
then impossible to find
only art is grand
even mountains grow
and then are worn down by wind and rain
oh! nature
nature is the theme of all time
rain is everything
wind is the breath of creation
the celestial wheel turns a path
so we call it past
and when i walk to the shore
it meets me
just a hope
the patriarchy is dominated by the old men of power and position. in my lifetime, i believe i have witnessed a continuous erosion of the old men's influence over growing boys. more and more, boys grow to be gentle men who are care givers to children and accept leadership from women.
with this verse i celebrate the notion that the patriarchy may soon just disappear under the feet of the old men. that no more boys will grow to become soldiers.
resist is the need of boys and men
resist the military, resist the church.
resist old patriarch's sublime control.
resist injustice at every turn.
resister your goal resister a claim.
a sister be me as a sister may be
re- sister me to an equitable game
if sister be beaten and raped, owned and lamed,
then sister me also .
we may end the old game .
and i will be re-sister too
capitalism is the enemy to justice
if i get to tell my great grandchildren some day about it i will say how at the beginning of the 21st century greed drove the national policy so that the goal became to maximize profits to some few exploiters, (unseen mostly) who used all the national resources to get the all the oil in the tar sand oil fields in alberta out as fast as possible.
the investors reasoned the fastest they could get the oil to market the highest prices they will realized.
i think they were wrong but they collapsed the ecosystem trying.
1984 - 2014
1984 came to be in 2004...........
sometimes I think
someone used Orwell's story
as a cook book,
following the directions
to codify language
into consumable goods.
now social groups
are organized
into consumer values.
any product
can be marketed
to a value set,......
.....also political ideas are sold
social commentary is re-circulated
to the same value groups!
.... curtailing the effect
of social criticism ,
containing it to interest groups.
search engines also
can isolate information
as easily as not,
sifting the most desired point of view
to the top.
specialization narrows,
isolates information
into interest groups
of common values
political ideas
as well as products
are tailored
to the advantage
of one official editor .